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Dear Mr. Sterndale Bennett, ? JUL 101

86, STRAND,

LONDON, W. C.2.

20th April, 1942.

In case you have not seen it I send you the following copy

of a message telegraphed by Reuter from Chungking on April 17th. The telegram bears on the conversation I had with you some little time ago Please do not trouble to reply to this.

"Shanghai keeps in touch with the outside world by means of the old Chinese system of Relay Posting. Letters from Britain or America are sent to Chungking where they are removed from their envelopes and re-posted to Shanghai. The reply comes back by the same route, bringing to Britons, Americans and other Allied nationals reports of their families and of the businesses they have had to leave.

"By this means, too, news filters through the Japanese lines. The Japanese even help to carry it, and somewhere a friendly Chinese agent, re-addressing an urgent letter, smiles inscrutably. #t

Yours sincerely,

J.C. Sterndale Bennett, Esq.,

Foreign Office,

S.W.1.

Em. Gull

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